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Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1915.

Application lc April 4, 1813. Serial Zelo. 758,825.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that We, ALEXANDER EUGEN Comuni', a subject of the King of Great Britain and `ireland, and residing at 23 Flanchiord road, London, W., England, and Anon llaiirBURGnR, a citizen of the United States of America, and residing at 38 Dover street, Mayfair, London, W., England, have invented certain nenv and useful improvements in and Relating to Color Photography, of which the following is a specification.

rlhis invention relates to improvements in connection with color photography cameras of the kind in which a colored reflector lter is inserted in the path of the rays from the lens, and separates the pencil of light into two portions, one transmitted to a sensitive medium by reflection and the other to a sensitive medium by transmission through the reflector filter.

The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings in Which- Figure l is aL diagram showing how the main distortion of the transmitted image is produced by the insertion of the reflector lilter, Fig. la indicates the nature of a secondary distortion which is found to be produced inthe transmitted image, Fig. 2 indicates the manner in which pressure should in the case of a periectly plane :iilter according to our invention be applied to the ilter in order to ellect a compensating distortion of the filter. Fig. 3 indicates in part elevation a simple form oi device for effecting the distortion in practice, Fig. 4: indicates a camera provided with such a device andv with mcahs for 4keeping the tilt of the screen appropriate to the focus adjustment or the camera. Fig. 5 shows a camera `Awith plate holding attachn'ients for increasing the of' the image Without alteration ot the reflector filter.

The introduction olf lthe glass relector in cameras of the hind referred to causes, as is well known, a. displacement of the rays passing through the filter in the manner indicated in Fig. l of the accompanying diagrams which shows hmv rays a, o, c, passing from optical center o? oli the lens through 'the llter c to the focusing plane 7", are loirered hy the filter from the point c', Zi", c., to the position e, if c, this e'riect being in at the bottom of the reflector; but by moi the focusing plane farther away from the lens center d to a position and by tilting it in the same sense as the reflector as indicated in the diagram, the distortion resulting from this displacement of the rays can be compensated and calculation shows that this compensation is more than suiiciently accurate in the vertical center line of the rays. When the calculation is extended to the remaining parts of the focusin plane however, it is found that these are a ected by a secondary distortion, the sense of which is shown in Fig. la Which indicates in :front view at C D E F the true image or a square object, While C D E F shows greatly eXag erated the image actually obtained. Wit the largest practicable lield for this type of camera, namely, about 32o in the direction C D and 25o in the direction l E, calculation shows the distance apart of the vertical lines C F, C F to amount to about l/Qth 'of the thickness of the transparent reflector; While the curvature of the horizontal lines is such as to bring the point C about 'li/60th of the thickness of the reflector lower than the corresponding ideal point C. As a reflector lilter may often require to be a quarter of an inch in thickness the errors of registration between the images obtained by the transmitted and reflected rays respectively become very serious.

It is the object oi' the present invention Vto provide means whereby these disadvanprovide ncreasing the size of the images obtained ond the size normally obtainable with .ny particular iilter and t0 provide for improved distribution of the rays ecticn from andl transmission through reectcr filter.

ention consists in correctin for produced by reflector hlters Escribed by distor- .er as by application This in consists in autovarious points matically effecting correction of inclination of the focusing plane with alteration in focus as by pivotally mounting the focusing screen and connecting it by links or the like with the focusing means.

This invention also consists in the improvements in and relating to cameras for color photography hereinafter indicated.

In carrying this invention into effect in the preferred form, we provide means for applying pressure to the reflector at suitable points in order to bend the same and introduce distortions of the same sense and magnitude into the reflected image as are inevitably present in the transmitted image. Where the reflector in its natural, un-

strained condition is perfectly flat the correction can be eiected by supporting it f rom the Side of the focusing screen in four points,

a pair G, H, at its upper edge and a pairy I, J, at its lower edge, either the upper or lower pair of these supporting points being interconnected yas at Y so as to equalize the pressure on them and insure steadiness, while from the front pressure is applied to the other edges at points K, L, M, N. It is desirable to apply the pressure resiliently; as the actual displacement required to effect correction is in most cases minute.

The theoretical form of a perfectly plane and optically 'uniform mirror when corrected is that of a portion of the surface of a cone of extremely large base, diameter and height. Y The difficulties of producing optically perfect reflectors especially when these have to be provided with deposited films on one or both sides, are, however, so great that it is found in practice that the residual distortions of the image is likely to be very much greater than the calculated amount, and is not infrequently actually in the reverse direction. The preferred way of correcting these residual distortions consists in bending the reflector by pressure applied in suitable points, in such a Way as to introduce distortions of the same sense and magnitude into thereflected image as are inevitably present in the transmitted image. With an average reflector, therefore, pressure may be needed at almost any point and in either direction, and we accordingly preferably provide for the reflector a rigid frame of U section 0 Fig. 3 with a number of screw threaded holes P all around and on both faces at distances say of 1 inch from each other, into which pressure screws m may be inserted where required. Three adjustable supporting points a With strong springs y opposite to them are further provided in suitable widely separated positions, so as to fiX the distance of the reflector from the faces of the frame, and by adjusting these three points ,reflectors of varying thickness may be so adjusted as to act correctly when the frame is inserted in its same fixed sup- 4ports in the camera, thus provided for interchangeability of reflectors. The correction may be effected by adjusting the pressure at different points until the transmitted and reflected images are of the same size.

In order to provide for diminution of the tilt of the focusing plane when the focus of the lens is increased We provide-in the preferred form a long lever bearingwith its long arm on an inclined guiding bar adjustably attached to the sliding part of the focusing adjustment, while the short arm of the lever acts on the tilting movement of the focusing screen. This is indicated in the; camera shown in Fig. 4 in Which the adjustable portions of the camera i has upon it an inclined guide T upon which bears a bellcrank lever U pivoted at U upon the camera and adapted tovl alter the inclination of the pivotally mounted plate holder V under the infiuence of the spring W. v

As the diiiiculties of correcting for distortion increase rapidly with increase in size of the refiector filter, it is always desirable to keep the size of the refiector filter at a minimum, and we accordingly (see Fig. 5) provide attachments t and t with plate holding devices o and 'v so that these may be applied in place of the normal plate holding devices, and by increasing the distance between the plate holder and the filter in the main body of thecamera la, increase the size of the image Without changing the size of the filter. As the effective lengt-h of the camera is thus lengthened, a dimunition of tilt is required in the focusing frame of the plate receiving the transmitted image, and the required tilt is but very slight; the extension box for the transmitted image being shown wedge-shaped, but very much exaggerated in the accompanying drawing. Moreover, in order to equalize the distribution of reflected and transmitted light and i to increase the proportion reflected, We find it preferable to employ a refiector filter which is sufficiently silvered or otherwise caused to have increased reflecting power to increase the proportion of reflected light so as to make the exposure value of the reflected rays more nearly equal to that of the transmitted rays. This distribution of rays may also be improved by inserting in the path of the rays a color screen adapted to modify the proportion of the transmitted and reflected rays reaching their respective sensitive media.

Having now described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Let-- ters Patent is 1. A method of obtaining negatives for color photographs consisting in intercepting .the rays proceeding 4from the object by an and distorting aforesaid reflector by pressure applied thereto so as to produce identity in the reflected and transmitted images, theplane of the light sensitive medium exposed to the transmitted ray being given an inclination to an imaginary axis joining the optical center of the medium, the filter4 and the object and of the same sense as the inclination of the filter, as set forth.

2. A reflector filter device for color photography, comprising a frame, a reflector filter within said frame, stops and springs supporting said reflector filter rigidly within the frame, and a number of pressure applying devices adapted for independent adjustmentmounted in said-frame and capable of bearing upon aforesaid reflector filter about its edges, as set forth.

3. A reflector filter camera for obtaining negatives for color photography having two separate light sensitive media, an inclined reflector filter adapted to intercept the rays entering the camera and to distribute' them by reflection and transmission respectively between the two sensitive media, a pivotally mounted plate holding device, holding the aforesaid light sensitive medium receiving the transmitted rays from the reflector filter, said device being situated at the extremity of the longitudinal .axis of the camera, a focusing element and a member transmitting the motion of the focusing element to the pivotal plate holding device, substantially as described.

4. A reflector filter camera for obtaining negatives for color photography having a focusing element, two se arate plate holding elements one of w ich is pivotally v[slaan] Corrections in Letters Patent No. 1,140,576.

5L A camera for color photography, com` prising a-main camera box having two openings in the walls thereof, an inclined reflector adapted to distribute to these two openings by reflection and transmission respectively rays falling upon it, Aand truncated pyramidal plate-holding boxes applied to aforesaid openings, the plate-holding plane of that late-holding box receiving Lthe transmitted rays from-the reflector filter havin 'somewhat' less than perpendicular inclination towardy the axis of the rays passing into the reflector filter, s'aid` inclination being in the same sense as that of the reflector filter to said axis, as set forth.

.In testimony whereof we have signed our` names to this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

v ALEXANDER EUGEN GONRADY.

ARON HAMBURGER. a

Witnesses:

H. D. JAMESON, O. J. Womn.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,140,576, granted May 25, 1915, upon the' application of Alexander Eugen Conrady and Aron Hamburger, of Lon- \don, England, for an improvement in H(lolor Photography, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, line 56,1after thel Word plane insert the reference-letter f; page 2 line 81, for the word portions read portion s; page 3, lines 54-55, after the word reflector insert the Word jlter; and

thatthe said Letters Patent should bel read with these corrections thereinthat the Y' same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 27th day of July, A. D., 1915.

R. F. WHITEHEAD,

Acting O'omm'ssioner-qf Patents. 

